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  2. Stonewall Jackson - Wikipedia

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    Stonewall Jackson. Thomas Jonathan " Stonewall " Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a general officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He played a prominent role in nearly all military engagements in the Eastern theater of the war until his death. Military historians regard him as one of the most gifted ...

  3. McIntyre system - Wikipedia

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    McIntyre system. The McIntyre system, or systems as there have been five of them, is a playoff system that gives an advantage to teams or competitors qualifying higher (usually by allowing higher qualified teams to lose more games or series before being eliminated compared to lower qualified teams).

  4. Layne Staley - Wikipedia

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    layne-staley .com. Layne Thomas Staley (born Layne Rutherford Staley; August 22, 1967 – April 5, 2002) [2] [3] was an American singer and songwriter who was the original lead vocalist of Alice in Chains, which rose to international fame in the early 1990s as part of Seattle 's grunge movement. He was known for his distinctive vocal style as ...

  5. Battle of Okinawa - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Okinawa ( Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen), codenamed Operation Iceberg, [24] : 17 was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. [25] [26] The initial invasion of Okinawa on 1 April 1945 was the largest ...

  6. Syrian civil war - Wikipedia

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    e. The Syrian civil war ( Arabic: ٱلْحَرْبُ ٱلْأَهْلِيَّةُ ٱلسُّورِيَّةُ, romanized : al-ḥarb al-ʾahlīyah al-sūrīyah) is an ongoing multi-sided conflict in Syria involving various state-sponsored and non-state actors. In March 2011, popular discontent with the rule of Bashar al-Assad triggered large ...

  7. Billy Strings - Wikipedia

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    Spouse (s) Ally Apostol (m. 2023) Website. https://www.billystrings.com. Billy Strings (born William Lee Apostol, October 3, 1992) is an American guitarist and bluegrass musician. [1] His album Home won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album in 2021.

  8. Kevin Kline - Wikipedia

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    Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American actor. Kline is known for his over five decade career as a leading man on stage and screen. He is the recipient of an Academy Award and three Tony Awards, and has been nominated for two British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards. [1]

  9. Baltimore accuses the owner and operator of Dali ship that ...

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    The mayor and city council of Baltimore have launched a legal claim against both the owner and manager of a ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month, leaving six men presumed ...